Well, I had my last straw with the Fleetwood's power trunk lid pull-down this afternoon. It worked fine until a few weeks ago, when I had opened the trunk to look for something and when I closed it down as usual, it latched, but there was no pull down. Tried it a few more times, and finally it pulled down. The next week, it did it again and I had my dad look at it. He sprayed a few pieces and of course it worked every time he tried it, but seemed to need to be closed harder for it to work.
Then, today on my way home from school, my brother had to stop at the store for some big posterboard. I didn't want to bend it up on the inside, so I opened the trunk and layed it down. Close the lid as usual, and nothing. It latched, but wouldn't pull down--great
! Tried it a few more times. Nothing. Completely dead. After about 8 more tries, I gave up and just decided to drive the rest of the way home with it sticking up about an inch, since it was safely latched. I told my father who was home early today (that's another story...) and we went out to see what we could do. Of course, it didn't work at all.
I had thought this was kind of cool to watch it suck itself closed, but was otherwise dumb, since you have to kind of close it most of the way anyway. We had a mission--get rid of the power assist. After examining every piece and not being able to find what was wrong, he just took the motor apart and hand cranked it to get the lower latch to retract back down manually, since it had powered up when I first opened the trunk. We got it adjusted to the right level, disconnected the power, and removed the corresponding fuse. We also kept all of the pieces that were removed, in case we ever want to restore it in the future.
But for now, it's fixed, and I can just close the lid the full way manually, and not have to worry about the stupid motor being dead and not pulling it down the rest of the way.
Then, today on my way home from school, my brother had to stop at the store for some big posterboard. I didn't want to bend it up on the inside, so I opened the trunk and layed it down. Close the lid as usual, and nothing. It latched, but wouldn't pull down--great
! Tried it a few more times. Nothing. Completely dead. After about 8 more tries, I gave up and just decided to drive the rest of the way home with it sticking up about an inch, since it was safely latched. I told my father who was home early today (that's another story...) and we went out to see what we could do. Of course, it didn't work at all.I had thought this was kind of cool to watch it suck itself closed, but was otherwise dumb, since you have to kind of close it most of the way anyway. We had a mission--get rid of the power assist. After examining every piece and not being able to find what was wrong, he just took the motor apart and hand cranked it to get the lower latch to retract back down manually, since it had powered up when I first opened the trunk. We got it adjusted to the right level, disconnected the power, and removed the corresponding fuse. We also kept all of the pieces that were removed, in case we ever want to restore it in the future.
But for now, it's fixed, and I can just close the lid the full way manually, and not have to worry about the stupid motor being dead and not pulling it down the rest of the way.
